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When I was a biker my club showed a video called "Death on the Highway" which was gruesome but it's effects were forgotten after a week or two. There is a continuous bombardment of warnings and threats directed at drivers many under the guise of Public Safety Announcements usually they only have limited accuracy. They may have an effect on very young drivers but for the rest this continous driver abuse is self defeating and does not work

When the driving test was introduced some 76/77 years ago I understand there were 1.5 million cars on the road and the death rate was somewhere around 7000 +. Given that we now have 34 million on the road and around 2000 deaths per annum I really don't see what's the problem. I know I'd much prefer a swifter death via RTA than end up in a germ infected hospital.

I think they should curve their videos according to their audience. The reason being that my son saw a video either at College that was so shocking, that till this day he refuses to learn how to drive and has no intentions of doing so. In addition to that he would rather take public transport than drive with a friend who is his age or even close to his age. He saw this video 2 years ago and still feels the effects of it.

as a serving fire fighter who was at a double fatal car accident last night with two teenage drivers, i have to say we need better advertising than the standards we currently have. these shocking adverts do work, the number of accidents do drop when a spate of education and road safety campaigns are aired; but unlike ireland we in th UK cannot show the true effects of RTC's so they resort to cinema style shocks. if we were allowed to air the actual effects of a serious RTC then the thought of it will make some drivers think again. and as for the comment of a swift death in an RTC - (rta reffers to an accident when it never is) I obviusly cannot put my true feelings here for how irrisponcible a comment that is as I am in uniform; but its very rarely a quick and preferential exit from this world.

stay safe, don't drink and drive and never answer a mobile on the roads! for more information consult your local fire and rescue service or the road safety website.

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